2023-11-06 13:25:36
It’s anything but a surprise. We revealed it on our site this Sunday. Benjamin Pavard (27 years old, 52 caps) will not be able to participate in the next gathering of the French team, opposed to Gibraltar on Saturday November 18 in Nice and Greece three days later in Athens in the Euro 2024 qualifiers, competition for which France is already qualified. It remained to be refined, more precisely, the duration of the unavailability of the defender, taken out on a stretcher during the match between Inter Milan and Atalanta Bergamo on Saturday (2-1).
After suffering violent contact with the knee, the former Bayern Munich player, now in Italy, is expected to miss 6 weeks of competition according to our information. The latest examinations carried out this Monday revealed a distortion of the knee, at the level of the kneecap which had come off its axis.
Disasi or Todibo to replace him
Pavard will therefore escape surgical intervention. However, we will have to wait until March 2024 to see him wear the blue jersey again. He remained on a major performance last month, in Lille, with a double in a friendly against Scotland and a symbolic end of the match with the captain’s armband (4-1, October 17). His return to Inter, joined this summer from Bayern Munich, could take place at the end of December either against Lecce on the weekend of 23-24, or a week later against Genoa.
To replace the 2018 world champion, Didier Deschamps, who communicates his list this Thursday, November 9 (2 p.m.), has several solutions. Absent from the last rally due to a toe problem, William Saliba continues the matches with Arsenal, just like Axel Disasi for Chelsea. Jean-Clair Todibo, performing again with Nice on Sunday evening, is in good form. Despite everything, he leaves a long time late that the controversy surrounding his “nervous laughter” during a minute of silence might not help.
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